Transportation, employment and gender norms: Evidence from Indian cities

IF 1.7 Q2 GEOGRAPHY Regional Science Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2024-06-01 DOI:10.1016/j.rspp.2024.100060
Arun Balachandran , Sonalde Desai
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Abstract

While India’s low female labor force participation in urban areas is often attributed to its demographic and labor market characteristics, education, and cultural aspects, attention is not paid to the labor market opportunity structure limiting women’s labor market participation. We examine the role of transport infrastructure in gender-gap in labor force participation and its variations by gender-norms across communities. Using India Human Development Survey and city-level data on transport infrastructure, the causal effects of differential employment status of women and men are related to size and quality of transport in twelve Indian cities. Interaction effects are explored to understand varying impacts of transport on employment by gender-context in communities. We find that an improvement in the size and quality of transportation infrastructure improves women’s labor market participation more than that of men. In gender egalitarian communities, stronger positive effect of transport on female labor and reduction of gender gap in employment. Along with generation of new job opportunities suitable for women, it is important to encourage a gender-friendly institutional and social fabric to allow women to connect to new jobs. Using a novel data, the paper highlights the importance of ostensibly gender-neutral development policies for shaping gender inequalities in outcomes.

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交通、就业和性别规范:印度城市的证据
印度城市地区女性劳动力参与率较低,这通常归因于其人口和劳动力市场特征、教育和文化方面,但限制女性参与劳动力市场的劳动力市场机会结构却未受到重视。我们研究了交通基础设施在劳动力参与的性别差距中的作用及其在不同社区的性别规范差异。利用印度人类发展调查和城市一级的交通基础设施数据,研究了印度 12 个城市的交通规模和质量对男女就业状况差异的因果影响。我们还探讨了交互效应,以了解不同社区的性别背景下交通对就业的不同影响。我们发现,交通基础设施规模和质量的改善对女性劳动力市场参与度的提高要大于男性。在性别平等的社区,交通对女性劳动力的积极影响更大,就业中的性别差距也有所缩小。在创造适合女性的新工作机会的同时,还必须鼓励建立性别友好的制度和社会结构,使女性能够获得新的工作机会。本文利用新颖的数据,强调了表面上不分性别的发展政策对于形成性别不平等结果的重要性。
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期刊介绍: Regional Science Policy & Practice (RSPP) is the official policy and practitioner orientated journal of the Regional Science Association International. It is an international journal that publishes high quality papers in applied regional science that explore policy and practice issues in regional and local development. It welcomes papers from a range of academic disciplines and practitioners including planning, public policy, geography, economics and environmental science and related fields. Papers should address the interface between academic debates and policy development and application. RSPP provides an opportunity for academics and policy makers to develop a dialogue to identify and explore many of the challenges facing local and regional economies.
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